Bug #5949: Add documentation introduction for the Encoding class

Really nice documentation, thank you for writing this!

Impressive, thanks! I think you have a typo on line 1698 ; if it's supposed to be a ruby code example, the Encoding:ISO-8859-1 needs two double colons "::". I was reading a few times through the external/internal encoding chapters, but I wish I'd really see an example making actual usage of an IO object; I think it would help tremendously to grasp the concept and apply it to real code. Thank you

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This issue was solved with changeset r34608. Florent, thank you for reporting this issue. Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated. May Ruby be with you. ---------- * encoding.c (Init_Encoding): Add Encoding documentation. [ruby-trunk - Bug #5949] * encoding.c (rb_set_default_external): Fix typo in documentation.

Florent, I altered your original submission to recommend against Encoding.default_external= and Encoding.default_internal= as they cause issues with inconsistent encodings (see the individual method documentation). Also, please trim trailing whitespace. I also fixed the typo and added the IO example requested by Markus

Thanks for your feedback and Eric for improving my submission! I've just seen your tweet Eric, sorry I had missed all the ticket updates, when I created the ticket I had not noticed that I was not watching it by default.